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MIT Geeks Create an Origami Thanksgiving
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-11-29 00:24
The MIT Origami Club crafted Thanksgiving-themed paper sculptures. Image: Dominick Reuter
In theory, Origami is simple: Take a sheet of paper, follow the dotted lines and without the use of scissors or glue, you’ve got a paper crane. It stands to reason that if you’re good at following instructions, you’re good at origami. And that’s true—anyone can fold their way to a simple paper crane. But truly grasping the geometric complexities of that crane? That’s actually pretty brainy stuff.
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Space tourist Dennis Tito begs US to bankroll HIS manned Mars flyby
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-11-21 00:41
Multi-millionaire investment manager, and world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito has been testifying before the US Congress about his plans for a 501-day trip around Mars and back.
He says he'll need government money to meet the planned schedule of a 2018 launch.
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An Earth-like exoplanet in mass and size discovered
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-10-31 23:34
MIT researchers have found that Kepler 78b, a small, intensely hot planet 400 light-years from Earth discovered by the researchers in August, shares Earth’s mass.
By analyzing the movement of its host star, Kepler 78, the scientists determined that the exoplanet is about 1.7 times as massive as the Earth.
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NASA says first space Internet test 'beyond expectations'
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-10-23 23:09
NASA scientists say the first tests of what could someday become an outer space Internet have far surpassed their expectations.
"It's been beyond what we expected," said Don Cornwell, the Lunar Laser Communications Mission manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "We obviously expected it would work well, but this is even better... Everything going better than we thought it would. We're running these systems error free."
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Scientists claim discovery of life coming to Earth from space
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-09-23 23:33
Scientists from the University of Sheffield believe they have found life arriving to Earth from space after sending a balloon 27km into the stratosphere.
After it landed, they discovered that they had captured a diatom fragment and some unusual biological entities from the stratosphere, all of which are too large to have come from Earth, the scientists suggest. The team was led by Professor (Hon. Cardiff and Buckingham Universities) Milton Wainwright, from the University’s Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.
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